Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, CUHK

Teaching Staff


Dr. Rongrong LI	Dr. Geoffrey SHEA	Professor Peifeng MA
Geographic Information Systems; GIS for Transportation/Logistics; Spatial Optimization; Remote Sensing Applications	GIS Technologies, Adaptive Mobile GIS, OpenStreetMap	SAR Interferometry and Tomography


Professor Lap-ah TSE	Professor Lingcao HUANG	Professor Lin LIU
Environmental and occupational exposures, Public Health, Environmental Epidemiology	Optical Remote Sensing, Deep Learning for computer vision, Permafrost changes under climate warming	Cryosphere Geophysics, Geodesy and Near Surface Geophysics, Radar remote sensing

Professor Sylvia He
Transportation Planning and Policy Travel Behavior, Urban and Regional Economics

Latest News

20 November, 2024
Congratulations to MSc students Awarded ISEIS Scholarship (2024-25)
19 November, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Jiannan Cai on being awarded the Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas)
24 September, 2024
香港中文大學衞星成功發射進入太空軌道獻禮新中國成立75周年
19 October, 2023
MSc students Awarded ISEIS Scholarship (2023-24)
25 August, 2023
Professor Michael F. Goodchild and Professor Michael Batty provided a distinguished lectures.
6 April, 2023
ISEIS PhD student won 1st Place in the AAG Student Honors Paper Competition
13 February, 2023
Delegation visit of Wuhan University
12 December, 2022
ISEIS has been invitied to share newest research excellence and showcase in the InnoTech Expo 2022.
7 November, 2022
MSc students Awarded ISEIS Scholarship (2022-23) Congratulation our MSc students Chen Siyu, Huang Zhijie, Liu Anli and Mok Ho Yi for awarded the Scholarship of MSc in Environmental Information, Health and Public Management (2022-23) by Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
15 October, 2022
Prof Kwan will the speaker in Geospatial Information Technology for smart life.
16 September, 2022
Prof Kwan will the speaker in 中國地理學
5 August, 2022
Congratulations to Prof. Peifeng Ma, who has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Geography and Resource Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong effective Aug 1, 2022. Prof. Ma is also a recipient of the VC Early Career Professorship Scheme offer. Congratulations also to Prof. Zihan Kan, who has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Geography and Resource Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong effective Aug 1, 2022.
8 June, 2022
Pleased to announce that Prof. Mei-Po Kwan and Prof. Peifeng Ma have just been awarded a General Research Fund (GRF) in the 2022-23 exercise. Congratulations!
KWAN, Mei Po, ISEIS, The Environmental Determinants of Mental Health: A Study Using Geographic Ecological Momentary Assessment (GEMA) (GRF, HK$1,201,378)
MA, Peifeng, ISEIS, Deep learning-based radar remote sensing of land subsidence in deltaic metropolitan regions for sustainable development (GRF, $743,635)
8 June, 2022
Congratulations to Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, Director of ISEIS, has been awarded the 2022 James R. Anderson Medal of Honor in Applied Geography, which is the highest honor bestowed by the Applied Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG).
5 May, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Jiannan Cai on receiving a 3-year RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship, which is a prestigious fellowship awarded by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong to support young researchers in building up and developing their research careers. The competition is intense and less than 10 awardees from all disciplines are selected each year to CUHK.
3 May, 2022
Professor Kwan will be the speaker in “Advancing Women Academics in Leadership” webinar
29 April, 2022
Using GIScience to Combat COVID-19 and Keep People Healthy
22 April, 2022
Prof. Gang Li (李剛) from Sun Yat-Sen University will present us a seminar.
8 April, 2022
Prof. Sanwei He (贺三维) from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China will present us a seminar .
11 March, 2022
Prof. Li He from Xi’an Jiaotong University will present a seminar. The topic is Understanding urban crime using mobile phone data and street view imagery.
11 March, 2022
Dr. Ru Xu will be the speaker of the seminar. The topic is 基于卫星观测的全球森林对云量的影响
04 March, 2022
Prof. Xiaolin Zhu will be the speaker of the seminar. The topic is Monitoring cities from space during the nighttime
18 February, 2022
Dr Jian Lin will be the speaker of the seminar. The topic is Urban Forestry for Sustainable Communities: Evidence from New York City
16 December, 2021
Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, Director of Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, invites be a keynote speaker in 中国城市科学研究会健康城市专委会2021年会
13 December, 2021
Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, Director of Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, invites be a keynote speaker in the First Workshop of Asian Young Geographers on 18-19 Dec 2021
1 December, 2021
CUHK hosts webinar to discuss implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on geoprivacy in health research and policies
17 November, 2021
Professor Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, has been named to the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers list.
8 November, 2021
Professor Kwan, ISEIS Director, will speak in a seminar about Hazards, Vulnerability, and Geography
30 September, 2021
Professor Kwan, ISEIS Director, will have a seminar about Big Data and Geospatial Technologies for Smart Cities Research in HKUST
23 September, 2021
News report on CUHK Innovation Day: Satellite aerial mobile remote sensing technologies for public and infrastructural health by ISEIS
16 September, 2021
Professor Peifeng Ma is invited to be the organizing committee member of the BIGSARDATA2021.
6 August, 2021
Postgraduate Research Output Award 2020
5 August, 2021
Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, will be presenting a keynote speech on "Urban Place-making" in an online international workshop on August 20, 2021 as part of an international event "Women and Urbanization in China: Building a Transformative Knowledge Network".
4 August, 2021
Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, will give an invited keynote speech from 4:00 pm to 4:15 pm (HK Time) on August 13 at the 19th International Conference on Spatial Data Handling and Geographic Intelligence
2 July, 2021
ISEIS Director recently received a major grant from the HK Research Grants Council (RGC): Professor Mei-Po Kwan - "Geoprivacy Concerns for and Acceptance of COVID-19 Control Measures that Use Individual Georeferenced Data." (HK$902,274; 2022/23 General Research Fund (GRF)
25 May, 2021
Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, is invited to attend the Policy Forum on Winning the War on COVID - Policy Insights from Computational Social Science, organised by the Faculty of Social Science and Policy Research @ HKIAPS, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
21 May, 2021
Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, will give an invited talk.
3 May, 2021
Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, will present the research with new insights and recent advances in IJGIS Webinar Series.
23 April, 2021
Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, will be the Keynote speaker at the International Workshop in University of Melbourne.
8 April, 2021
Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, and her group will be speaking at the AAG Annual Meeting 2021.
26 March, 2021
Professor Huang Bo receives awards in the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva
10 March, 2021
Prof. Kwan Mei Po, Director of ISEIS was invited to the below webinar jointly organised by the Department of Geography & the Centre for Geo-computation Studies at the Hong Kong Baptist University on 11 March 2021
8 March, 2021
ISEIS researchers recently received three major grants from the HK Research Grants Council (RGC)
8 March, 2021
MSc students Awarded Scholarship (2020-21)
4 March, 2021
ISEIS Director, Professor Mei-Po Kwan receives 2021 AAG Wilbanks Prize for Transformational Research in Geography
20 October, 2020
关美宝教授将于粤港澳空间科学与技术联盟2020进行线上报告
15 October, 2020
香港中文大学（中大）太空与地球信息科学研究所（太空所）马培峰博士团队作为第二申请者获得中国测绘学会2020年测绘科学技术一等奖，这是香港中文大学首次获得测绘科技进步奖。
2 September, 2020
Master of Science in Environmental Information, Health and Public Management Seminar calendar 2020-21
31 August 2020
Please join a Leadership Spotlight: An One-hour Interview with Dr. Mei-Po Kwan by Dr. Marie Price, President of American Geographical Society (AGS).
31 August 2020
Prof. Bo HUANG was invited to give a presentation at the ANSO Think Tank Workshop on Big Data Analysis and Forecast for Pandemic, August 31st, 2020. The title of his presentation is: "The Effects of Human Mobility and Control Measures on COVID-19 Infections".
7 August 2020
ISEIS won 'GO!'GREEN AWARD 2019 ENERGY CONSERVATION AWARD
22 July 2020
Professor Kwan will be speaking at CGA Virtual Forum : Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic with Geospatial Research and Applications.
28 April 2020
Professor Kwan will be speaking at CGA Virtual Forum : Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic with Geospatial Research and Applications.
5 April 2020
Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, director of ISEIS will be speaking at "Panel 2: Data & Methodological Challenges for the Geospatial Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic".
26 November 2019
Prof. Kwan Mei-Po has been named as Most Highly Cited Researcher

Teaching Staff

Dr. Rongrong LI

Dr. Geoffrey SHEA

Professor Peifeng MA

Professor Lap-ah TSE

Professor Lingcao HUANG

Professor Lin LIU

Professor Sylvia He